In reply to a post by stniuk:

You only use the power switch once a day usually less. Once you get to know the position you can do it easily.

i always thought it would be an idea to turn that big ol useless apple logo (which lets face without that been there they could make the screen use all the front lol) into the power button,
My current monitor LG flatron has a light sensitive power button so instead of a physical button you just glider your finger over a sensor and it comes on they could turn the logo into one of them lol that way there vainnes the stick the apple logo everywhere visible would actually be useful lol

Ash

Clearly you need something with very big buttons, whereas most folk are quite happy with it the way it is.

Spoken like a true fanboi.

...if indeed you are an Apple user.

Edited by micksharpe (Sun 04-Nov-12 15:26:14)

One of those wannabes, me thinks.

<stirring mode>I'd rather spend all day sitting behind a Mac than in front of one anyway.<\stirring mode>

Would that be a Big Mac?

In reply to a post by stniuk:

You only use the power switch once a day usually less.

Why that often?

I'm thinking of a windows user.
I normally sleep my mac but if I'm going to be away I shut it down.

Yet this design feature harks back to the early IBM PC which had the power switch on the rear of the base unit at the right hand side.

It was said that switching on or off the PC meant that you had to wrap your right arm around the machine as if you were hugging it, And as you had to use both arms to prevent you from tipping over you were actually wrapping your arms around the beast.

The story goes (as told to me by a colleague from Boca Raton where the PC originated, perhaps with tongue in cheek) the apparent "hugging of the machine" was to increase the bond between the user and the machine.

I used to work on a series of mini-computers that had the reboot button on the front panel at exactly knee height. One had to be very careful where one placed one's knees.